Exploding God

Chapter 1160 Realms are the most boring thing for me (4000-word long chapter)

(4000-word long chapter, combined into one for the sake of continuity.)

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If the Red Furnace Sword Domain that Lu Ze casually set up earlier was visually striking, then the scene of him snatching the sword box with one hand and severing an arm with the sword wheel was truly awe-inspiring.

Before today, no one could have imagined that there was anyone in the world who could rival the Grand Elder.

Today, they not only saw it, but also saw the Grand Elder's left arm cut into nine pieces by the domineering sword wheel, blood splattering across the sky.

"He...he...is he really...at the Twelfth Star Realm?"

A 9-star martial artist, who had been swept three thousand meters away by the shockwave, lay on the ground trembling as he spoke.

No one around him could answer him, because everyone around him was equally terrified.

Seeing this, their minds began to imagine a completely unimaginable outcome!

The Grand Elder... might die?

Once this idea takes root, it begins to grow and spread like weeds.

Do not!

Will not.

……

Because of this shocking result, everyone inadvertently overlooked a problem.

Why was Lu Ze able to calmly "flick" out those eight sword wheels just now?

……

"If I don't skin you alive, tear your flesh apart, and drink your blood today, I can't quell the hatred in my heart!"

With a mournful roar, the Grand Elder's body exploded with an extremely pure aura, his long hair whipped upwards, and a powerful stellar energy, far exceeding anything he had ever unleashed, swept in all directions.

This elder, who always presented himself as aloof and wise, now had bloodshot eyes and looked like a complete madman, with none of his former elegance remaining.

What he found most intolerable was that the other party actually used his White Horse Sword Box to control sword energy, and then used the sword energy enhanced by the sword box to pierce through his protective energy and sever his arm!

In other words, he was not defeated by his opponent, but by his own sword case.

To be at the pinnacle of martial arts, only to be treated the same way in return, brings a humiliation that stings the heart even more than the physical pain.

Thinking of this, Tantai Zhongyi suddenly grabbed with his right hand and snatched the Yellow Millet Sword Box from a distance.

He wanted to personally control the Yellow Millet Sword Box.

With the sword case in hand, what can you do no matter how unpredictable your movements are!

When his right hand covered the Yellow Millet Sword Box, his eyes became incredibly violent.

This time, I will use force to overpower everyone!

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the Grand Elder's figure vanished in a gust of wind.

A white sonic boom, over a hundred feet in diameter, spread vertically across the ground.

Lu Ze lifted his eyelids and looked up at the sky a thousand meters away.

There, a figure with trembling and distorted edges took shape, and Tantai Zhongyi and Lu Ze looked at each other across the distance, their eyes cold and lifeless.

Sufficient distance, sufficient measures, and then comes the decisive blow!

Tantai Zhongyi's Star Source Sea of ​​Consciousness finally began to release without reservation, and the vortex-shaped projection behind him suddenly expanded by more than double!

"The Grotto Heaven—"

His eyes gleamed white as he shouted loudly.

The deep sound swept across the sky in an instant, like thunderclaps filling all directions, and caused countless echoes to overlap.

Ugh~

Ugh~

The howling wind blew above the clouds, piercing through the thick, dark clouds and creating a heart-wrenching void.

That void was like a hole opened in a sky full of clouds.

The warriors who had already taken refuge at the edge of the wilderness suddenly shuddered, their pupils shrinking to a single point.

At this moment, the hairs on the backs of their hands stood up involuntarily, a sign that their own energy was being drawn by the power of heaven and earth.

They gazed at the sky, their hearts trembling.

When they saw the hurricane sweeping through the dark clouds and transforming into a towering pillar of ink that descended straight down on Tantai Zhongyi's head, those with weaker wills nearly collapsed to their knees in worship.

Is this the Grand Elder's true strength?

Even the mythical figures in history are no more impressive than this!

With the blessing of the heavenly power from above the clouds, Tantai Zhongyi's already almost tangible pure qi doubled in thickness once more!

Compared to the 10-star War King's aura being less than 2 centimeters thick, the Grand Elder's aura was now more than half a meter thick!

Beyond the cyan color, thick black energy swirled, carrying an aura of destruction.

That thickness, that terrifying aura, was enough to make any martial artist who saw it despair.

How magnificent and vast this is!

However, the next second, people watching the sky from all corners of the wilderness suddenly realized that their imaginations were still lacking!

The white light in Tantai Zhongyi's eyes grew brighter and brighter until it completely covered all his eyeballs, like the eyes of a god, piercing through the thick fog and barriers, and reflecting two white lantern-like beams of light outside the heavy aura of blue and black.

"Alas—"

A cold, emotionless voice emanated from behind the protective aura, simultaneously reverberating throughout every space within a ten-thousand-meter radius.

Rumbling--

wow-

First, a deep, loud rumbling sound came from underground, followed by the sudden boiling of the pale white mist on the surface.

boom!

boom!

Countless cracks, large and small, appeared, and endless white sand gushed forth.

When the earth-shaking waves, with peaks exceeding two meters, appeared on the horizon, not only the martial artists already scattered throughout the wilderness, but even the Song family martial artists standing behind the Thornwood Formation were so shocked that their blood almost turned to jelly.

At this moment, without anyone's prompting, thousands of martial artists lowered their waists and took steps, grabbing onto anything they could to hold onto. Martial artists above the nine-star level displayed their unique abilities and, without a second thought, stepped into the air.

because--

The earth dragon has turned over!

For thousands of years, this land has borne and nurtured countless lives, yet no living being has ever caused this land to experience a true earthquake!

Today, everyone has seen it.

With a soft "pop," like the sound of a balloon being punctured, people suddenly looked over.

--boom!

The deafening roar was like a volcanic eruption.

A gigantic column of air, over ten meters in diameter, rose terrifyingly, like an angry dragon soaring, shooting straight into the sky a thousand meters high.

When that terrifying column of air struck Tantai Zhongyi's feet with pinpoint accuracy.

For the first time, heaven and earth were truly connected.

The clockwise and counterclockwise rotations begin to mesh, and in an instant, the process of deceleration, coming to a stop, and accelerating is completed.

A colossal tornado, interwoven with white mist, yellow hues, and black fog, finally appeared before everyone, exuding an aura of world-destroying power.

Within the tornado, sparks were constantly being generated at the edges of Tantai Zhongyi's qi due to high-speed friction. His figure was completely obscured, leaving only two faint white lights.

"Hear my command! The sword formation is awe-inspiring!"

The icy voice echoed throughout the land, like an emperor personally commanding the imperial guards.

Today, with one arm and the strongest martial intent of his life, aided by the Yellow Millet Sword Box, he unleashed the most powerful killing move in the White Emperor Sword Manual that had never been used before—[Shocking Sword Seal]!

This seal should command the sword intent of heaven and earth with the might of the White Emperor.

From the beginning of formlessness, from the end of all living beings, to the annihilation of the past and the future.

……

In an instant, dazzling white light surged from the ground and sky simultaneously, colliding with the tornado.

The tornado, which was already spinning at high speed, seemed to be ignited and suddenly expanded. Countless turbulent streams flew from the sky to the ground and were flung in all directions. After flying out, the turbulent streams transformed into a pure and noble bright yellow.

Click!

A dazzling purple finally flashed through the dark clouds.

A bolt of lightning struck down.

That's a sign of the emergence of higher density stellar energy.

A hand rose from within the tornado, pointing at Lu Ze.

"cut."

A single word carries the might of Heaven, just as the wrath of an emperor can cause the deaths of millions.

A thousand meters away, ten zhang above, below, to the left and to the right of where Lu Ze stood!

Suddenly, a yellow meteor streaked across the sky from all four angles!

Four orange-yellow sword energies shot out from the void in four directions, instantly piercing towards Lu Ze at a speed exceeding Mach 8. Due to their excessive speed, they left a cross-shaped orange-yellow trajectory in the eyes of all the onlookers!

A breathtakingly violent beauty!

Ding--

boom!

A terrifying mass of high-pressure gas exploded.

Lu Ze appeared a hundred meters away, still holding the sword box in his left hand, and still pressing two fingers of his right hand together on the sword box.

No one knows how he managed to dodge it, and no one is thinking about it now.

Because just as he appeared, the same four directions, the same four beams of light flashed again.

"cut."

Another word was uttered, carrying the momentum to sweep across the eight directions and six realms, rising amidst thunder.

Swah——

At the peak of the thirteenth star realm, the sword energy, driven by the combined power of heaven and earth, once again locked onto Lu Ze with the same speed, the same angle, and the same ferocity.

[The situation is dire!]

The thought flashed through people's minds.

But then another cloud of light and smoke exploded up.

Before those watching this scene could even finish processing their thoughts, the numbers one, two, three... nineteen reappeared in their field of vision!

In less than half a second, a total of nineteen areas where sword shadows intertwined appeared!

The dazzling array of crisscrossing sword strikes, like the placement of stones on a Go board, filled the sky, accompanied by equally terrifying explosions and flashes of light, all appearing before people's eyes.

What a terrifying killing move this is!

A sword aura that was released almost instantly!

A lockdown without warning!

A strike that breaks through eight times the speed of sound!

This is clearly a sword attack in an absolutely locked state.

How could anyone in this world possess such a deadly move?

Is it really possible for anyone in this world to escape unscathed?

Whether it was Song Tianhua and Zhang Xinghuo, or the elders and retainers of the Changsun and Gu families, their minds were racing, and a question arose.

The doubts had barely surfaced when reality shattered them into pieces.

The fact that the cross-shaped sword light appeared twenty-one times means that Lu Ze dodged the strangulation of the [Shocking Sword Seal] twenty-one times.

"With the combined power of heaven and earth, I could slay you a thousand times over, but how many times could you possibly dodge?"

The elder's voice was ethereal, distant, and indifferent.

Within the giant tornado surrounded by thunder, his eyes took in everything in the arena. The Yellow Millet Sword Box had already spun into a phantom in his palm. His five fingers pointed a hundred meters ahead of the direction Lu Ze had last flashed out, his eyes ferocious.

"Cut again!"

The astonishing sword imprint—[Giant Spirit Sword]!

In that instant, people vaguely saw that the tricolor tornado connecting heaven and earth seemed to have thinned out a bit.

Boom!

Thunderclouds surged.

The moment Lu Ze's figure flashed again, the areas that should have flashed yellow light once more—up, down, left, and right—actually seemed to ignite four great rivers of orange-yellow flames!

An incredibly terrifying scene unfolded—four giant orange-yellow swords, each over twenty feet long, appeared!

The same cross-shaped trajectory, carrying the power to shatter mountains and cleave the earth, slashed towards Lu Ze.

At that moment, people seemed to see a sun rising!

When that dazzling, intense light burst forth, everyone instinctively closed their eyes.

--boom!

It was like a nuclear bomb with a yield of one megaton detonating in mid-air.

A magnificent shockwave emerged diagonally from the sky.

The crowd below, who had already frantically fled five kilometers away, suddenly experienced a brief period of deafness while their eyes were still closed. Their bodies were swept up lightly, like fallen leaves carried by a hurricane, or like the floating duckweed that rises when a boulder falls into a pond, and were slammed even further away.

Swah——

The energy shield surrounding the Song family base went from bright to dark in a second and silently melted away, causing all the giant trees, each a hundred meters tall and visible to the naked eye, to tilt backward simultaneously.

The warriors, their eyes closed and swaying with the waves, had no doubt that this strike could easily wipe a town off the map.

……

Splash, splash.

Crackle, crackle.

This is the sound of leaves, weeds, shrubs, and pebbles falling from the air.

People opened their eyes.

A "rain" of countless miscellaneous objects began to fall in the wilderness, and they looked like drowned rats in this "heavy rain".

People strained to raise their heads and look up at the sky, searching for the marks left by the four divine swords that had slashed across the sky.

That guy...

It should be gone.

……

"Mr. Lu!"

"Master—"

A trembling voice and a resolute voice that refused to believe seemed so insignificant at that moment.

……

The figure no longer appeared in sight.

Ugh……

People don't know why they want to sigh.

Just as they were about to sigh, a calm and peaceful voice rang out softly, like the rising sun over the grassland, bright, thriving, and bringing about the revival of all things, making their souls tremble and countless cells in their minds leap with excitement.

"Have you truly witnessed countless sword energies?"

The voice remained steady, still carrying the power that made people willing to believe from the bottom of their hearts.

That voice, how familiar it was!

Under the vast sky, countless people gaped in astonishment.

Right where the giant swords had clashed and perished, a distorted, transparent ripple appeared.

Like a sphere painted with a transparent color, it gradually fades, revealing the original flame luster and... the figure standing within it, unmoved.

Stray hairs swayed in the wind, and the angular face still wore the same calm smile as always.

It turned out that Lu Ze had been standing there the whole time, neither avoiding nor dodging.

But why is there a sphere that looks like a flame next to him?

It wasn't a celestial aura; there wasn't the slightest crack.

But once fully revealed, it vanishes silently, like a soap bubble encountering light and heat.

People stared at the unharmed figure, as if sensing something was different, but they couldn't quite place it.

"You... have advanced to the thirteenth star realm!?"

An incredulous voice suddenly emanated from within the tornado that still hung between heaven and earth.

Lu Ze's lips curled up slightly, he shook his head, and uttered a soft murmur to himself, as well as to the heavens and earth.

"I find the pursuit of higher realms utterly uninteresting."

Lu Ze tilted his head slightly, gazing at the towering tornado, and spoke softly:

"All swords return to their origin".

……

On this day, the crowd saw countless crimson sword energies shatter the dark clouds and fall down, like clouds, like rain, like light.

Does the world really have ten thousand swords?

Are there really rivers formed from sword energy in this world?

Are there really landscapes in this world that cannot be depicted by any amount of imagination?

Like a breeze rising from the tip of a duckweed, or a wave forming from a gentle ripple.

Vast and boundless, flowing from east to west and from back to front, like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens.

The thunder roared and surged ceaselessly.

Those were truly ten thousand swords, slicing through the sky, passing through tornadoes, brushing against the body, carrying the aura of burning the heavens...

Finally, the lightness returned to the left hand, inside the white jade box.

Just as a landscape painting was completed in one stroke, the world returned to tranquility.

Gale-force winds, tornadoes, and earth dragons seem to have never appeared before.

Except for that shiny, clean body...

Skeletal remains.

(End of this chapter)